Dexter Pittman has a vicious elbow!

[arieshorn]

The Miami and Indiana series has got some bad blood between these two. The last game was filled with flagrant foul highlights including a vicious elbow by Texas ex Dexter Pittman. Check out the video highlights!

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[Bigtex112]

Thug Basketball

 

[Third Coast]

Thuggery is right. No other way to describe it. Emotions are clearly running high on both sides, but this whole retaliatory hockey mentality is an embarrassment to the game.

As far as Dex is concerned, he definitely deserves a long suspension. The best thing for him to do now is stay far away from Indianapolis for game six.

 

[l00p]

He learned by doing it to the Aggies. I recall a game when he and Lexi got in trouble for rough play.

 

[Statalyzer]

Can't believe he only got 3 games - Bynum did less to JJ Barea last year and got 5. What Pittman did is, at the very least, equal with what MWP did to Harden last month, and probably worse because he threw his entire body weight and momentum into the hit.

 

[Third Coast]

I agree Stat. Dex got off very light.

So much for sending a message that premeditated and potentially dangerous retaliation won't be tolerated.

 

[HornsForever'93]

I think it punishes Miami more to force them to have to play Pittman. He is horrible and still can't make a layup

 

[VYFan]

I bet Barnes is not proud.

 

[South Austin]

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[l00p]

I know Dex and he is likely not proud of it either. Don't know what he was thinking or if he was told to do it. But unless he is a full 360 from when he was on campus, that's not how he rolls.

 

[HornsForever'93]

360 means you are back where u started. I think u mean 180

 

[Third Coast]

Everyone makes mistakes in the heat (pun) of the moment.

The good thing is, no one was hurt seriously.

The bad thing is that something like this will be affixed to a players resume. Especially a marginal player just trying to make, or stay on a roster.

 

[Bayerithe]

that elbow was more vicious than Ron Artest's elbow to Harden. he should have gotten AT LEAST 7 games.

 

[l00p]

Dur, my bad. 180, sorry.

I have heard a couple of "insiders" on various programs say that a reason why Dex may have gotten less is because he is not a repeat offender. Then a joke was made because he never plays he cannot be a repeat offender, haha. That may have been why.

A penalty could have been that they HAD to play him no less than 30 minutes a game.

 

[Statalyzer]

Was Bynum a repeat offender when he got 5 games for doing less to Barea than Pittman did to Stephenson?

 

[l00p]

Dunno, you'd have to ask the guys who said it whose job it is to follow the NBA and know much more about it than you or me combined.

 

[Statalyzer]

I wasn't questioning them, I was questioning the logic of selectively applying the repeat-offender standard of determining punishment.

 

[l00p]

Stern seems like the type to write down any little thing a player does (if not a superstar or face of the NBA) and using that against a player.